The Cambridge history of the book in Britain.
"The history of the book offers a distinctive form of access to the ways in which human beings have sought to give meaning to their own and others' lives. Our knowledge of the past derives mainly from texts. Landscape, architecture, sculpture, painting and the decorative arts have their st...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1999-2019.
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Summary: | "The history of the book offers a distinctive form of access to the ways in which human beings have sought to give meaning to their own and others' lives. Our knowledge of the past derives mainly from texts. Landscape, architecture, sculpture, painting and the decorative arts have their stories to tell and may themselves be construed as texts; but oral tradition, manuscripts, printed books, and those other forms of inscription and incision such as maps, music and graphic images have a power to report even more directly on human experience and the events and thoughts which shaped it. The seven volumes of the History of the Book in Britain will help explain how these texts were created, why they took the forms they did, their relations with other media, and what influence they had on the minds and actions of those who heard, read or viewed them. Its range, too - in time, place and the great diversity of the conditions of text production, including reception - challenges any attempt to define its limits and give an account adequate to its complexity. It addresses, whether by period, country, genre or technology, widely disparate fields of enquiry, each of which demands and attracts its own forms of scholarship. The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain seeks to represent much of that variety. The volumes investigate the creation, material production, dissemination and reception of texts, effectively plotting the intellectual history of Britain."-- |
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Item Description: | Volumes published out of numerical order. Volume 3 was the first to be published, in 1999, followed by volume 4 (2002), volume 2 (2008), volumes 5-6 (2009), and volume 1 (2012). Volume 7 was published in 2019. First paperback editions of volumes 2, 3, 5 and 6 published in 2014. |
Physical Description: | 7 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
ISBN: | 9780521583459 0521583454 9780521782180 052178218X 9781107636767 1107636760 9780521573467 0521573467 9781107698758 1107698758 9780521661829 052166182X 1107657857 9781107657854 9780521810173 0521810175 9781107626805 1107626803 9780521866248 0521866243 9781107668294 1107668298 9781107010604 1107010608 9780511466731 0511466730 9780511468445 051146844X |